Example sentences of "could be [verb] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst we did consider that this site could be developed with a single storey dwelling without seriously affecting the amenities of the village , we were not aware of the strength of local feeling against any development on this site . |
| 2 | THE region could be faced with a large number of knock-on job losses if American Airlines pulls the plug on its loss-making Stansted to Chicago route . |
| 3 | If practices quit the health service many patients could be faced with a staggering increase in costs . |
| 4 | Obviously this idea has to be thought out in advance , and if your friend or family move during the winter then you could be faced with a big problem in trying to gather enough material to make an attractive and interesting picture . |
| 5 | Some commentators suggest that the power deters supporters from rebellion since they would be reluctant to create a situation in which they could be faced with an arduous election campaign that could jeopardise their seats . |
| 6 | While the new Bermuda tanks from Tahiti Aquariums could be filtered with a small foam filter , this undergravel system will do a neater job . |
| 7 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 8 | Indigestion could be quelled with a simple magnesia tablet , thousands of which she chewed in her lifetime . |
| 9 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 10 | It will probably be directed against Bulgaria , but there is also the possibility of an attack upon the Dodecanese , if such an expedition could be undertaken with the small fleet that Turkey possesses . |
| 11 | Anthony Bradley , emeritus professor of constitutional law at Edinburgh University , said there was a case for a double-stage inquiry which first examined the principle or case for change and the second to study how changes could be made with the minimum dislocation or waste of expenditure . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose Jefferson could be connected with a magic ritual which made use of Cathedral candles , ’ Ian said speculatively . |
| 13 | But others in the Surinamese capital speculated the mercenaries could be connected with a Colombian drug baron , who escaped from custody last week , Mr Haakmat said . |
| 14 | If trusses were duplicated , however , spans up to 105ft could be erected with the light unit construction equipment . |
| 15 | Some documents could be authenticated with a wooden stamp of the royal signature , perhaps without the King even seeing them . |
| 16 | An urban area could be compared with a rural area . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , it would not be an easy matter to construct a home-made optical system using digital signals so that this technique could be compared with the analogue one . |
| 18 | For him Childebert I could be compared with the Old Testament monarch , Melchisedek — and doubtless , having come from Ravenna , Fortunatus 's image of Melchisedek would have been similar to that which was set up in San Vitale , where the patriarch provided an analogue to the emperor Justinian . |
| 19 | But did you realise that you could be landed with a huge bill afterwards ? |
| 20 | The information available through the payroll was : name man number payroll number ( hourly , weekly , monthly ) depot number birth date date of joining salary company division department marital status date left At a later date indicators were added for : membership of pension scheme savings scheme part-timers address job title It became apparent immediately that quite a lot could be done with a good program . |
| 21 | It can be seen that a long list of students ( or any other units ) could be used for a random sample by this means simply by numbering from beginning to end , and this could be done with an automatic increasing numbering stamp . |
| 22 | At first , each gearbox only started rattling with a warmed up engine but each got worse until the rattle could be heard with a cold engine on revving up when stationary . |
| 23 | Here was a period when a universally accepted order could be discovered with a resulting social and political stability . |
| 24 | Fruit decayed : an uneaten mango , firm at breakfast , could be covered with a thin lint of mould by evening . |
| 25 | Prince Anne 's modest needs could be met with a hand-knitted hat — exclusive to Oxfam — at £9.95 . |
| 26 | Contractors would then be invited to tender for the work , or a price could be negotiated with a single contractor . |
| 27 | The declaration said that until such time as Krajina 's separation from Croatia could be negotiated with the Croatian government , Croatian laws would continue to be observed in the region , provided that they were not at variance with federal laws or laws unilaterally adopted by the Krajina government . |
| 28 | It could be teamed with an additional short pair of curtains hung from the top of the window to create a tiered effect . |
| 29 | De Klerk declared that the point had now been reached when the " remaining vestiges of violence could be countered with the ordinary laws of the land " , except in Natal , where the " destruction of human life and property " and what he described as the " exceptionally high level of intimidation which exists there " had " assumed shocking proportions " and needed to be countered " by the strongest means available " . |
| 30 | People only had political problems , which could be solved with the proper application of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought . |